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Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation

Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,200 to it, the largest being Effort Initiative Corporation ($1,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$14k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$26k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation does

Mission

To promote sino-us cultural exchange and cooperation between the two peoples and all other people in the world. It will devote itself to the inheritance and growth of the worlds traditional culture by supporting local clutural development and innovation and enriching cultural life for people from different ethnic backgrounds in the united states.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide chances for artists musicians writers and photographers to display their works and talent.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($83k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2023 Revenue 29 ($37k) Expenses 56 ($46k) Net assets 78 ($33k)2024 Revenue 18 ($22k) Expenses 34 ($28k) Net assets 65 ($28k)2025 Revenue 11 ($14k) Expenses 19 ($16k) Net assets 62 ($26k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (11)Expenses (19)Net assets (62)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $43k to $33k (−22%).

$43k
$33k
$28k
$26k
2022202320242025
Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’22
−$9k
’23
−$6k
’24
−$1k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Kitty Yan Liao

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation's revenue fell 89% between 2022 and 2025.

Operating margin−11% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−52% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation?
Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,200 to it, the largest being Effort Initiative Corporation ($1,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,200 in grants to Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation.
Who is the largest funder of Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation?
Effort Initiative Corporation is the largest funder on record, with $1,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Scott Cao Cultural Heritage Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing